The years 1969 to 1983 when I had no growing children and no TV were ones of bliss, it was when they got to age 6 and pestered me into getting a TV life seemed more sordid than before. A good radio , Leak troughline , lets you do things and still keep up with news and music — lose the TV.
One can also have great fun with the pests from Capita licensing at your front door. Do the forms still not offer you the option of ‘no TV ‘ for why you don’t have a TV license.

DougS

Nice place you’ve got there Rod.

I particularly like the antimacassars – might need a new radiogram though!

Eddie

Your wife was lying.
There was actually a brilliant programme on the other side called ‘How my seventeen stone legs exploded’.
Actually, maybe it was Dawn French again? (Missed it, I’m afraid – I was watching drama box sets and naughtiness like everyone else)

Richard Brown

I like that little, not Liddle, little, blonde bird, though. She can mash my potatos any day of the week.

FrankS

Not allowed to smoke in the house, then, Rod?

no name

Time to buy a Harley-Davidson.

kidmugsy

The Vicar of Dibley is always worth a watch just to enjoy the fact that every member of the cast is a bit of a comic genius, except the lead.

Austin Barry

It’s an extremely uncharitable thought, but am I the only one to wish that Dawn French had been reduced to soap?

faster foster

Hear, hear to that.

biggestaspidistra

that plant could do with a bit of water, when you’re on your feet again.

Balloon_Boy

One is a massively depressing program that will lead you to question your faith in mankind. The other is a story about Holocaust survivors.

rodliddle

very good!

C Cole

What, no BBC Four documentary about the history of the national grid? For shame.